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what are biggest mistakes beginning producers make?
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| Audiotron |
| and should try to avoid? |
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| meriter |
| not exclusive to beginners but buying a load of gear thinking it's going to make you better.. like always needing one more thing. I think it's called GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) |
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| MSZ |
| Signing up on tranceaddict. |
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| Evolve140 |
Being lazy or taking short cuts. Double sausage fattening (with like 5-30% wet on each) instead of taking the time to properly saturate or distort and compress by hand, the proper way.
Handling their own mastering. If you don't know about production, you are probably going to rape the out of people's ears with your awful, improvised and flawed mastering work.
Using Nexus too much. Seriously, if you rely on this thing too much your will start to sound very weak up against producers who actually know how to do sound design and program synths.
Giving themselves too much credit and self-promoting too soon. Seriously? All you did was download a pirated copy of your DAW, watch some YouTube videos and now you have a Soundcloud AND a Facebook fan page.
Trying to sound like big, established producers and DJs. Wow, no one wants to hear your crappy attempt at sounding like SHM or Skrillex.
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| TranceLover007 |
| quote: | Originally posted by meriter
not exclusive to beginners but buying a load of gear thinking it's going to make you better.. like always needing one more thing. I think it's called GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) |
:haha: so thru :haha:
| quote: | Originally posted by Evolve140
Being lazy or taking short cuts. Double sausage fattening (with like 5-30% wet on each) instead of taking the time to properly saturate or distort and compress by hand, the proper way.
Handling their own mastering. If you don't know about production, you are probably going to rape the out of people's ears with your awful, improvised and flawed mastering work.
Using Nexus too much. Seriously, if you rely on this thing too much your will start to sound very weak up against producers who actually know how to do sound design and program synths.
Giving themselves too much credit and self-promoting too soon. Seriously? All you did was download a pirated copy of your DAW, watch some YouTube videos and now you have a Soundcloud AND a Facebook fan page.
Trying to sound like big, established producers and DJs. Wow, no one wants to hear your crappy attempt at sounded like SHM or Skrillex.
This list goes on forever. |
Another good entry - agree !
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| jayxthekoolest |
| Getting super cocky when a couple other people take interest in their work, even though they still suck. |
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| Underdog |
| Writing about themselves in 3rd person about the great potential they have. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by jayxthekoolest
Getting super cocky when a couple other people take interest in their work, even though they still suck. |
That's happened to me, actually. I tend to become much more sensitive to criticism if I've received praise for something than if I haven't received any positive criticism at all. Something about the tendency to be psychologically weakest after a perceived victory. Show me where it occurs very often, and I'll add it to my list.
| quote: | Originally posted by Underdog
Writing about themselves in 3rd person about the great potential they have. |
See #43 in the link I posted, above. :stongue: |
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| Deillon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Euforix
Overrate themselves. |
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| stewart.m |
| trying to copy the pros just make your own sound good |
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| Rodri Santos |
| red lining the mixer and thinking louder is better. First time i used a saturation plugin (my entry to M4B contest) i squashed everything. |
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